HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1114
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to parking for disabled persons.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 291-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definitions of "certificate of disability" and "person with a disability" to read as follows:

     ""Certificate of disability" means a medical statement issued by a licensed practicing physician[,] which verifies that a person is disabled, limited, or impaired in the ability to walk[.] or is mentally ill.

"Person with a disability" means [a]:

(1) A person with a disability which limits or impairs the ability to walk, and who, as determined by a licensed practicing physician:

    [(1)] (A)  Cannot walk two hundred feet without stopping to rest, due to a diagnosed arthritic, neurological, orthopedic, renal, vascular, or oncological condition;

    [(2)] (B) Cannot walk without the use of, or assistance from, a brace, cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or other assistive device;

    [(3)] (C) Is restricted by lung disease to such an extent that the person's forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for one second, when measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than sixty mm/hg on room air at rest;

    [(4)] (D) Uses portable oxygen; or

    [(5)] (E) Has a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV according to the standards set by the American Heart Association[.];

or

(2) A mentally ill person, as defined in section 334-1, as determined by a licensed practicing physician."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.
     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Parking for Disabled Persons; Mentally Ill

Description:

Extends the definition of disabled persons to include the mentally ill for the issuance of disabled parking placards.

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